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...post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because Sapir believes that the new government will not survive for more than two months. Nor has departing Golda Meir gone out of her way to bolster Rabin's cause. Since he was neither a dyed-in-the-wool Mapai man nor an experienced politician, she was cool to his selection as the new Premier-designate and did not attend all of the Labor Party meetings at which the makeup of the new government was discussed...
With two nuclear power plants operating and two more under construction-potentially capable of providing enough plutonium to produce more than a score of modest bombs-India is on the threshold of atomic prowess. That prospect alone filled many Indians with pride this week and helped bolster Mrs. Gandhi's strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit...
...Pettinger is the leading hitter for Columbia; he knocked out hits at a rate of .357 last spring. Pettinger held down the receiving end of the battery where he garnered an All-EIBL second-team berth, but could move to third to further bolster an already pretty good defensive infield...
...however, by no means conceding victory to the Yale team, which is looking to clinch its first Ivy championship. "Despite their power at the far end of the lineup, I think we have a chance to upset them," he said. And there is nothing that could bolster Harvard's hope for the future more than playing the role of the spoiler in Yale's title drive...
...realize the tenuous value of individuality. Stanley is a reluctant combatant and the winner of a dubious victory. His final assertion ("I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end") is as much an assertion of uncertainty as defiance, a bolster for his quaking confidence...